Multi-Purpose Event Center campus and community people within a 50-mile drive of UVM. will come together. When Currently, Burlington-area residents complete, the multi-purpose event must travel as far as New York, Montreal center will be the largest indoor venue or farther to attend events, putting in the state of Vermont, with the them beyond the reach of many. capacity to serve high school sports Meanwhile, innovative plans for from across the state and to bring new the Lake Champlain waterfront and offerings, such as touring Broadway downtown Burlington are unfolding, productions, concerts, prominent and regional technology firms continue speakers and family entertainment, to expand. The multi-purpose event to the region. center, Vermont’s first large-scale Studies have shown that the event facility, will serve as an exciting market is here: There are nearly 500,000 complement to a growing Chittenden County and resurgent UVM. Building Community

For decades, a versatile arena has been venue that could host conferences, Located on campus just west of the the missing piece at UVM. As a world- conventions and a wide variety of existing Patrick Gym Complex and class university, we need a facility entertainment options that now financed entirely by private gifts capable of hosting our successful bypass Northern New England for lack and the university, this facility will Division I hockey and basketball of appropriate space. foster a richer campus experience programs, along with university events Move Mountains: The Campaign and enhance an increasingly vibrant like commencement and convocation. for The University of Vermont aims Burlington region. Join us. Such an arena would also transform to fill this gap by raising funds to the region and the state, providing a build a multi-purpose event center. “‘Multi-purpose event center’ really captures what this facility is. It’s a place where we can bring people together for a wide variety of activities. It will benefit UVM Athletics, certainly, but also so much more. This facility will be transformative for the university, the community and the entire state.”

— Dr. Robert (Bob) Corran is UVM associate vice president and director of Athletics.

Multi-Purpose Event Center: opens its doors, this building will A new feasibility study prepared by $35 million significantly improve the experience Stadium Consultants International in While The University of Vermont for all UVM students, from varsity Toronto and BBB Architects of Toronto ice hockey and basketball teams student-athletes to those who come and New York envisions a versatile exemplify the finest of college to cheer, to those who attend concerts event center built on a scale suitable to athletics, our facilities that host these and other performances. It will also be Vermont. The plan would dramatically teams have fallen behind. The time has a boon for all-university events, such as increase capacity for our Division I come to reimagine large gatherings on commencement and convocation, as hockey and basketball teams, while campus and construct a multi-purpose well as community-oriented offerings, adding a mid-size arena that will serve event center. From the moment it including trade shows and concerts. as an entertainment mecca for the

movemountains.uvm.edu region. Designed to accommodate a with a molded-chair style for the range of uses, this is a more modest majority of sections and bench and functional arena than has been put seating in a student zone at one end. +6,500 forth in previous proposals. This facility will bring UVM Athletics Gutterson Arena and Patrick Gym were built Plans on the drawing board up to par with competitors in when UVM’s undergraduate population call for a main arena that could basketball’s America East Conference was 3,500. Today, there are 6,500 more students — UVM has approximately 10,000 accommodate 5,000 patrons (AEC) and in the Hockey East undergraduates. for hockey and basketball and Association, which will strengthen approximately 7,000 for center-stage student-athlete recruitment in concerts. Seating will be comfortable, these sports.

“I am looking forward to seeing this happen after years of conversations. We need to take this big idea — a multi-purpose arena that UVM needs and deserves — and find alumni, parents and friends who share the dream. And then the magic can happen.”

— President Tom Sullivan has led The University of Vermont since 2012. There is no better moment than now country. What’s needed — when the can succeed in constructing a right-size to make this investment in UVM’s president comes to town, when the and flexible facility that will benefit the future. Under the leadership of jazz festival wants to grow or when entire campus, community and region. President Tom Sullivan, UVM aspires the Cats are tournament-bound — Together, we will move mountains. to count itself among the nation’s is a quality facility. top public universities. At the same Move Mountains: The Campaign for For more details, contact: time, the region is experiencing an The University of Vermont presents an economic and cultural renaissance extraordinary opportunity help UVM The University of Vermont Foundation that is drawing educated and highly and the region realize this potential. 411 Main Street, Burlington, VT 05401 trained workers from across the Now, we need your help. Together, we 802-656-2010 | [email protected]

Move Mountains: The Campaign for The University of Vermont

The time has come for UVM to assert our position as one of the nation’s best public research universities. Move Mountains: The Campaign for The University of Vermont nurtures a culture of excellence and value and supports new opportunities for research, academic success and learning beyond the classroom. We will raise $500 million in private support to ensure that UVM is where we indeed move mountains — through the students we educate, the discoveries we make and the positive impact we have on Vermont and the world.

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